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The choice in roofing falls logically to sheet steel roofing manufactured in panels and cut to length for you by the manufacturer. Requiring no roof sheathing for our application other than roof felt stapled onto the purlins and rafters (since it does not need to be insulated), the application of metal roofing directly over the roof frame saves weight, while outlasting shingles and almost all other normal roofing. The diagrams earlier in this book portray a roof frame with only two rows of purlins on each side of the ridge board: that would only be sufficient should you use standard roof sheathing (ply deck) and asphalt shingles.
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Canadian Sheet Steel Building Institute, CSSBI, How to Series – Light Gauge Steel Roofing & Siding, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
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Hicks, J.S. (2016). Applying the Steel Roofing. In: Building a Roll-Off Roof or Dome Observatory. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3011-1_10
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